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THE ALARM BELL. 



NO. 1. 



To Abraham Lincoln and the British Minister at Washing- 
ton, and the Crown of Great Britain ; the People of 
the United States, and the People of Great Britain. 

The British Minister and the President of the United 
States cannot be ignorant of the nature of the struggle which 
the French Revolution of 1789 inaugurated. It is hardly 
necessary to mention to those acquainted with history, that 
the restoration of the Bourbons to the throne of France was 
followed by the so-called Holy Alliance, the secret object of 
of which was the suppression of revolution — the perpetuation 
of absolutism and the Roman faith everywhere. Still, the 
revolutionary principle was so powerful in France that Louis 
XVIII. was obliged to accommodate his government to it, and 
it was not till Charles X. began to give evidence of a reaction- 
ary spirit, and his becoming a member of the Holy Alliance, 
and thus entering into friendly relations with the Hapsburghs, 
that these powers considered they had obtained a triumph over 
the republican principle, and at once turned their attention to the 
extinguishing of the same principle in other countries ; and, need 
it be added, in England and the United States, those two great 
representative powers of constitutionalism and republicanism. 
And it will be recollected that republicanism and constitutional 
forms of government were considered to be, as they truly are, the 
offspring of protestantism. To show this was the object of the 
famed lectures of Schlegel. Is it necessary to allude to the mo- 
mentous fact that here commences a struggle with republican 



ism, constitutionalism, and protestantism, on the part of these 
powers, which is only just on the point of culminating ? The 
first step in the programme was the institution of the " Leo- 
pold Foundation " at Vienna, designed to establish the Roman 
Hierarchy on the ruins of republicanism in America. This was 
in 1829. Mark what follows : — In pursuance of this plan, 
several newspapers were started in this country — the Boston 
Pilot, and afterwards the Freeman's Journal, and some others 
"West. The first thing the Boston Pilot did was to commence 
an attack on Puritanism. Well was it understood that in this 
principle our free institutions originated ; could that be disin- 
tegrated, the way was prepared for the overthrow of these in- 
stitutions. In leveling their artillery against Puritanism, they 
expected to obtain the sympathy of episcopalians, as well as 
the irreligious and indifferent of all classes of the North. 

Availing themselves of the incompatibility of Northern 
and Southern institutions — of the elements of an oligarchy 
which there existed — they determined to intensify and perpet- 
uate this antagonism. Already had Northern free institutions 
shown their superiority over slavery in developing the commer- 
cial and industrial resources of the North, and in giving to 
New York City the ascendency over her Southern rival — 
Charleston. It was not, therefore, altogether as has been al- 
leged, a contest between South Carolina and Massachusetts ; 
it was, so far as Puritanism was concerned ; but it was a con- 
test between South Carolina and New York — between Charles- 
ton and New York City — so far as commerce was concerned. 
Here commences that open antagonism between the North and 
South. We do not say that Calhounism had its origin in Aus- 
trian machinations; by no means; that was a product of 
Southern soil — of Southern ambition — an ambition growing 
out of an entire discordance between a slaveocracy and a 
democracy. But when nullification, chameleon-like, changed 
its color, and commenced a systematic attack on Puritanism, 
by presenting an organized resistance to the abolitionism of 
the North, we do say, that the Austro- American influence lent 
its aid to intensify this resistance, and appropriate it to its own 
ends and purposes. Martin Yan Buren, discovering the South 
to be unyielding and inflexible with reference to anything 
which would impair Southern institutions, formed that mon- 
grel coalition between the Northern democratic party and the 



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Southern slaveocracy, whereby the ascendancy of the demo- 
cratic party was to be secured by upholding the institution of 
slavery. The Irish emigrants of the North were in direct 
sympathy with Rome, and formed the bulk of the democratic 
party ; Austrian agents seized upon the sympathy, and arrayed 
it against Puritanism, and put it in connection with the slave- 
ocracy of the South, which was also hostile to Puritanism ; 
from this source, therefore, the slaveocracy received its inspir- 
ations. 

The institution of slavery, from being one which was to be 
deplored and tolerated only for a time, until it could con- 
veniently be got rid of, began to be defended first as a con- 
stitutional right ; secondly, as a natural right ; and finally, as 
a normal organization of society, to be perpetuated as a blessing 
to the race where it existed. 

We say the South was encouraged and fortified in this 
direction by Austro-jesuitical suggestions and doctrines thus 
set in active operation by the Leopold Foundation at Vienna, 
introduced upon American soil, and entirely at variance with 
the teachings of Puritanism. What was the result ? Why, 
the blast first blown by the Boston Pilot against Puritanism, 
was taken up and repeated by the South, and, after the Yan 
Buren marriage of the Northern democracy with the Southern 
oligarchy, was echoed by the politicians and organs of that 
party in the North. Did Governor Seymour know that he 
was blowing the trumpet of the Austro-Roman party in this 
country when he uttered the ribaldry against Puritanism in 
his well-known speech at Springfield, Massachusetts, on the 
4th July, 1856 ? 

Thus the Austro-Rornan party succeeded in inaugurating 
an organized struggle between Puritanism, republicanism, 
constitutionalism, and freedom of the North, and oligarchism, 
absolutism, and the serfdom of the South. This was in 1832, 
only three years after the Leopold Foundation was instituted 
at Vienna. At the same time, the same power was working in 
England under the emancipation policy, in cautiously under- 
mining the Protestant Constitution of 1688, secured by the 
blood of Puritans, and introducing into Oxford theology 
puseyism as the handmaid of Jesuitism against English protest- 
antism, and radicalism against the aristocracy ! We have, 
therefore, in England, a constitutional monarchy, a marriage 



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of Romanism with radicalism ; and in the United States, a re- 
public, a marriage of Romanism with the oligarchy of the 
South ! 

At the same time they were working in the Netherlands to 
disintegrate that kingdom, and separate Belgium from Holland, 
to be at some future time, probably, annexed to the empire of 
France.* 

The first act in the struggle in this country was the at- 
tempt to establish Southern institutions upon the ruins of free- 
dom, by extending the area of slavery, and thus gaining the 
preponderance in the government. Had they succeeded 
in this, they would have quietly overturned our Constitution, 
and established a despotism in its place. Their first attempt 
■ — the acquisition of Texas — was a partial success, inasmuch as 
it gave an additional slave State to the area of slavery, while 
it left other States to be carved out of its territory south of 36 
cleg. 30 min., whose institutions were to be decided by the peo- 
ple. This curious episode in our history has not been suffi- 
ciently understood by our people. The war with Mexico, and 
the consequent acquisition of California, follow; but their 
scheme of slaveocratizing that State did not succeed. And then 
followed, as their next move on the chess-board, the destruction 
of the compromises, and the infamous attempt to carry the in- 
stitution of slavery into the territories, and erect a tier of slave 
States between Missouri and California, which proved, after a 
series of bungling scoundrelisms, equally unsuccessful. So, 
their last card, disunion, followed ! 

During the period from 1844 to 1853, particularly from 
1847 to 1853, the Irish emigration to this country had vastly 
increased. The repeal movement in Ireland, another shuffle of 
the cards of the Jesuits, had projected, first to Australia and 
then to the United States, many of the most talented of those 
spirits who had been engaged in that movement ; and a new 



* The attempt of La Mennais, in France, just previous, to bring about a coali- 
tion between the church of Rome and the republicans, is hardly important here, 
inasmuch as it fell through so far as the actual accomplishment of his purpose was 
concerned, the Pope refusing to concede 7-eligious liberty and free speech, which it 
was the purpose of La Mennais to secure. The principles of La Mennais, how- 
ever, are not dead, even with the priesthood. 

We allude to it merely for the purpose of showing the simultaneous activity 
of this power in different parts of the world at the same time. 



step was now taken towards consolidating the Roman hier- 
archy on our soil. 

The country was laid out into dioceses, bishops and arch- 
bishops appointed, and the first council of these bishops 
assembled at Baltimore with closed doors ! With the erection 
of the hierarchy, the next step was for the bishops to get 
control of the church property in their respective dioceses, and 
then make this property hereditary in their office by act of 
Legislature ; thereby constructing an episcopal aristocracy, 
with immense lands, tenements, and revenues, — which are in- 
alienable, always increasing, but never diminishing, — trans- 
mitted from bishop to bishop, — a spiritual aristocracy more 
terrible than any other with which the nations have been 
cursed ! We say these bishops are demagogues in disguise, — 
dukes, in the habiliments of the church, with vast domains,— 
their dioceses being in fact duchies, and their people destined 
to become subjects, forming a Northern oligarchy akin to the 
Southern, and affiliating with it. The council of bishops is 
antagonistic to Congress, and stands as the executor of the 
canon law, which is opposed to and subversive of our civil 
law on our soil. It is subversive of the British, as well as of 
the American, Constitution! 

Now comes the next great development, in which the 
British government is as much interested as ourselves. Rome 
has her hierarchy established here, with vast revenues and 
estates ; she now needs a military, and, for the purpose of ob- 
taining it, she resorts to a most extraordinary movement, and 
one about which our Government and people should be fully 
informed. 

In the Spring of 1853, one Thomas D'Arcy McGee delivered 
a lecture in the city of New York, in which he recommended 
that " the Irish should learn military tactics, in order to deliver 
their adopted country from both internal as well as external 
enemies." 

In compliance with this suggestion, the following winter 
an officer was engaged in giving military instruction to our 
foreign citizens ; and, immediately in connection, an organiza- 
tion was commenced among them, ostensibly for the purpose 
of delivering Ireland from British rule. The fact that a grand 
filibustering expedition was preparing in this country against 
a friendly power naturally arrested the attention of the British 



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minister at Washington, and he called the attention of our 
Government to the fact ; and our Government caused a com- 
mittee to be assembled at Cincinnati to investigate the affair. 
Prominent individuals, known to be connected with the organ- 
ization, were brought before this committee, and they boldly 
acknowledged that there was such an organization, and that its 
object was to deliver Ireland from England, and that it num- 
bered then about 150,000 men. 

But our Cabinet could only inform the British minister 
that its citizens had a right to form such military organizations 
as they pleased, and that they could not be interfered with till 
they had committed some overt act of an illegal nature. 

But our Government and the British minister should under- 
stand that such a movement could only refer to a future war 
between the two countries ; that it is part of their programme 
to involve the two countries in a war. 

No man of ordinary intelligence would suppose that a 
military movement like that referred to could be made success- 
ful as a mere filibustering affair. But this is not all ; this 
military organization also constitutes the soldiery of the hier- 
archy already noticed, and can be wielded any time for the 
permanent establishment of its power. It has a bureau in each 
State. It has plenty of secretaries at Boston, New York, and 
Cincinnati. It was for a time at least, if not at the present 
time, headed by a Virginian of some note in the political 
world. 

Will not this explain the to us mysterious phenomenon of 
soldiers, armed and equipped, paraded before the altars of some 
of the churches in our land, where they partook not of sacra- 
mental bread, but the bread of brotherhood, with little Amer- 
ican flags accompanying the distribution ? Of course, they 
were thus given to understand that they were soldiers and 
champions of the church, and were to be used as such. 

Immediately connected with this military movement were 
arranged the details of our present Southern rebellion. It was 
made in direct conjunction with the abrogation of the com- 
promises, and the miserable Kansas imbroglio which followed, 
intending to make disunion the next stej) in case that 
failed ! 

It is not generally known that the Austrian minister, 
Chevalier Hulseman, was sent to Washington by his govern- 



rnent for the express purpose of furthering this scheme of a 
Southern rebellion ! 

This will seem passing strange to our people, and, perhaps, 
to our Government, that Austria should know more of the 
machinations going on for the destruction of our institutions 
than we do ourselves — than Buchanan's administration seemed 
to know ; or, are we to imagine that that notorious public 
functionary was a quiet observer, and thus an encourager, of 
these diabolical machinations ? 

As proof of this, we refer to the following paragraph, taken 
from the Austrian paper, the Ost Deutshe Post, published at 
Yienna in 1855 : 

" The nomination of Chevalier Hulseman to the post of resident 
Austrian Minister at Washington, and the large increase which has 
been made in the organization of our mission in the United States, 
indicate a new step in Austrian diplomacy. Up to the present time, 
the United States have been to Austria a sort of scare-crow, with 
which it was wise to avoid all contact. A wise policy, however, does 
not believe that danger ceases because you close your eyes to it. 
Austria does well, then, to prepare to take her proper position in the 
events of which, sooner or later, the United States are destined to 
become the scene." 

This fact, probably, is more important to our government 
and people than those of Great Britain, but it will not be diffi- 
cult for them to comprehend that the same spirit and policy 
which could prompt that power to engage in such a formidable 
conspiracy for the overthrow of our form of government, is 
equally active and busily employed in a similar plot for the 
overthrow of the British constitution — absolutism and Roman- 
ism arrayed against the two governments who represent pro- 
testantism and constitutional liberty ! 

Is it difficult to comprehend the machinery at work here ? 
The Austrian minister in close communication with the seces- 
sion leaders and representatives at Washington, and with 
Archbishop Hughes, who, with the provincial bishops com- 
manding in their respective dioceses, supported by an Irish 
military of 150,000 men, in ambush behind the democratic 
party, with occasional manipulations of republican leaders, 
compose an organized force in the northern States, with numer- 
ous other agencies at work, — all controlled and guided by 
foreign potentates, and designed to be used in the direction 



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mentioned. Their grand purpose being to get possession of 
England and the United States, and then remove protestant- 
ism. The details of their movements, will, of course, depend 
upon circumstances ; but their main object is to centralize and 
imperialise the government ; and they are endeavoring to effect 
this through the disintegration of the States of the Union — not 
merely the Southern from the Northern, but the Western from 
the Eastern. This, however, is only for the purpose of weak- 
ening the elements of opposition ; and then, if they should 
succeed, they will reconstruct the government ; in which case, 
the principles of republicanism, protestantism and civil liberty 
will be ignored ; and then, when thus centralized and made 
one gigantic machine, with an army of half a million of men, 
they will hurl it against England. 

For this purpose, the affiliated societies of the " Knights of 
the Golden Circle," and the butternut organizations running 
through the Northwestern States, are designed to be used, 
while the Irish military organization already referred to, known 
among themselves as the Fenian Brotherhood, in connection 
with the Emmet Monument Association, will operate upon 
New England, New York, less through the Western States — 
more in the armies of the Union. It will be somewhat start- 
ling to the public, probably, to be told that the greater number 
of these Fenians are in flie Army of the Potomac, not for the 
purpose of securing the permanency of this Union, but for that 
of embarrassing the action of the administration, and, in the 
meantime, making soldiers of themselves, that they may be 
better prepared to fight England. The Boston Pilot has so 
declared this within the last twelve months. 

The " Irish Emigrant Aid Association " is another society 
connected with this machinery which might be mentioned, and 
a pretty significant one, too. To invade the United States 
with a body of foreigners, with arms in their hands, would be 
apt to be noticed by our people and government ; but to bring 
them in as emigrants, and then arm and organize them as 
American citizens, would not be considered improper, and yet 
be just as effectual. 

The Thos. Davis Club, the Red-hand Club, the Wolf-Tone 
Club, as well as the " Emmet Monumentals," are all part of 
the same gigantic machinery, and worked in unison. Then 
the numerous agents moving to and fro through the country, 



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acting as correspondents of the various presses, misrepresent- 
ing, exaggerating, disparaging, and getting into the offices of 
the government, and even in the army, embarrassing, and try- 
ing to produce catastrophes and inaction ; let the public con- 
sider That a war with England is part of their programme for 
the destruction of Protestantism is beginning already to be re- 
vealed by the Boston Pilot ! 

For this purpose, the same Thomas D'Arcy McGee has or- 
ganized the inflammable materials of Canada ; the " Nation- 
alists " in Ireland and throughout 'England is another secret 
organization to further this grand plot within the British do- 
minions ; and how many others lurking under benevolent 
appellations* it will be well for the British government to in- 
quire into. Let England be prepared for a revolt of Ireland, 
Canada, and Australia, and trouble internally, while she is 
assailed externally by formidable enemies. Since Austria com- 
menced her infamous scheme of planting the Roman hierarchy 
upon the ruins of our municipal and State governments, a 
change has come over her own destiny. 

The Bourbons, her most powerful allies, have been driven 
from the throne of France, and an old and dreaded enemy 
has reappeared there to dispute with her the championship 
of Jesuitism! A struggle necessarily ensued between the 
French and Austrian emperors for the protectorate of Rome ; 
and the result is that the latter has been expelled from Italy, 
and the pontifical states have fallen into the cold iron-like em- 
brace of the French emperor. Will the Jesuits accept ISTapo- 



* Our country is full of Austrian agents. On the establishment of the Roman 
republic in 1848, over a hundred Austro-Italians came over here. We have 
strong suspicions that the conspirators who meditated the assassination of 
President Lincoln while on his way to Washington to be inaugurated, belonged 
to these. The papers stated that one of them who was arrested was an Italian. 
Are we to suppose that the Bourbon princes came over here and attached them- 
selves to McClellan's staff out of any regard to our institutions ? Perhaps our 
people may not be generally aware of the fact that the Bourbons of France are 
in close alliance with the Hapsburghs, and are working for a common cause. Who 
were the German officers that came over here and offered their services to our 
government on the commencement of the rebellion ? Has the administration been 
deluded with the idea that they have obtained places in our army for the purpose 
of assisting in preserving the Union ? If it has, it is a delusion fraught with peril- 
ous consequences ! Why is the St. Patrick's Benevolent Society a secret society ? 
Is it necessary that benevolence be practised under cover ? 



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leon III. as their champion ? Will the Hapsburghs consent 
to receive him as their friend in the place of the deposed Or- 
leanists ? Necessarily ; they cannot avoid it ! As a part of 
her programme of crushing protestantism and constitutionalism, 
Austria assailed the liberties of Hungary, destroying her con- 
stitution, and reducing her to a province, and placing the 
Hungarian protestant church under military surveillance ; but 
in doing this she weakened herself, and the loss of her Italian 
possessions was a necessary consequence of that weakness ; and 
now, the Polish insurrection threatening to spread into Hun- 
gary and the Austro-Polish provinces, what can she do ? 
She must succumb to Napoleon, or be dismembered and fall 
into his hands a mangled carcass. 

Do not our people recollect with what enthusiasm Kossuth, 
the representative of Hungarian protestantism and constitu- 
tionalism, was received by our government and people, and 
will they not also remember that no sooner had he landed upon 
our shores than two prominent influential papers in our city 
commenced assailing him with the vilest abuse ? Which were 
these papers ? The New York Herald and the Courier and 
Inquirer. Whence their animus ? For whom were they 
working? We answer — for Archbishop Hughes. The Courier 
and Inquirer, sometime in 1854 (we believe, for we quote 
from memory), ascribes the honor of having expelled this dis- 
tinguished Hungarian patriot from the country to the Arch- 
bishop ; so, by his own admissions, Col. Webb was in the serv- 
ice of this prelate and of Austria, and the whole band of foreign 
agents in the United States. 

The Dundalk Democrat, a paper published in Ireland, has 
the following important piece of information : "Napoleon has 
liauled down his neutral flag and hoisted his true colors ; by 
which he indicates that there must be no interference with the 
Pope's temporal power, and that Rome cannot be the capital 
of Italy. More than this it indicates, and the revolutionists * 
understand it well, and are alarmed at its meaning." 

This was last year, and events now transpiring evince its 
truth. That Napoleon III. has become the champion of Rome, 
consequently of absolutism and despotism against republican- 
ism and freedom, the world over. If so, the drama of the 

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world's history will suddenly be changed. Louis Napoleon 
steps in as the executor of the Austrian policy, of destruction 
of constitutions ; he becomes suddenly transformed before our 
eyes from the representative of conservatism into a frightful 
demon, shaking flaming torches and clanking chains over the 
free nations of the earth ! He suddenly becomes the terrible 
enemy of Switzerland, of Holland, of England, and the United 
States ! He steps forward to wield the vast machinery organ- 
ized by the Jesuits in the two latter countries ; he, in fact, be- 
comes the major-general of the 150,000 and more of the Irish 
enrolled and disciplined for the purpose of establishing the 
Roman hierarchy on our soil, and waging war with England. 
He has already commenced his movements — he has entered 
Mexico, erected an empire there, placing Maximilian, the 
brother of the present Emperor of Austria, upon the throne— 
the compensation, probably, to that power for the sacrifices 
she has made in his behalf! What is his object in invading 
Mexico? He tells us it is to give ascendancy to the Latin 
race ! That is it. To championize the Latin race, of which 
Rome is the head. Our government and people should be wary. 
His next movement will be with reference to the Southern 
Confederacy. Have the South been deceived by their Northern 
allies? Did they understand that it was part of the pro- 
gramme that the war should be carried on until they were 
humbled and compelled to take shelter under the wing of Na- 
poleon ? That they should become an appendage to the French 
empire ? Have the Irish been consulted with reference to this 
matter ? They are in danger of losing their liberty ! Their 
archbishops and bishops are manufacturing chains for them ! 
"When Napoleon, in alliance with the South, moves against the 
North, they will be called upon to rise and unite with him 
against the North. Our government should carefully consider 
whether, at such a crisis, there is not danger of a revolt in the 
Army of the Potomac ! 

We will suppose a contingency : A French and Confederate 
army move against the North, at the same time a Confederate 
and French fleet attack the city of New York, at the same 
time an insurrection breaks out in the city, extending through- 
out the Northern States, at the same time a revolt takes place 
in the Army of the Potomac — is our government prepared for 



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such an emergency ? If not, it should be, for it has the ma- 
terial. 

We say that if England assists Napoleon in establishing the 
Latin church in the United States, when that is done, then he 
will make use of the United States to establish the Latin 
church in old England ! We would draw the attention of the 
public to a remarkable clause in the speech delivered by Arch- 
bishop Hughes to the Nationalists in Ireland last summer. He 
says : " An effort will be made to redress grievances else- 
where, when Ireland will have her opportunity ! " This means 
war — nothing else. It means the revolt of Ireland, and with 
that revolt is connected the Irish Fenians in the United States. 
It means war with the United States, in which France will be 
engaged against England. It is not probable that, if the 
object of France is to establish the Latin church in the United 
States, England is going to join her in such a project ! 

For the purpose of bringing about this collision, it be- 
comes necessary first to excite animosity between the two 
countries. 

Mitch el, the Irish exile, comes to New York, and assists in 
getting up the Fenian organization referred to, and then goes 
South, and is now editor of the Richmond Enquirer, and is, or 
was, correspondent of the London Times. Is it difficult to 
discern whence the venom that points the articles in that great 
English organ on this country ? 

Secession families, carrying what property they could with 
them, have gone to England. There they enter into contracts 
on behalf of the Confederate Government for building iron-clad 
steamers to prey upon our merchantmen and destroy our com- 
merce ! Their influence is exerted through the press and 
privately to embroil the two nations. 

The feeling in England, therefore, is manufactured for the 
occasion, and for the express purpose of bringing on the great 
struggle referred to ! 

Archbishop Hughes is in favor of foreign intervention. 
Here are his own words, taken from his letter published in the 
Herald, July 16, 1863 : 

" There are things that no man can pretend to fathom — questions 
that depend on so many additional circumstances for their solution, — 
but there is one thing and one question that should be clear to every 
mind. It is this, that if a war of this kind should be continued for 



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many years, it is recognized as being allowable for other nations to com 
bine in their strength and put an end to it." 

The Archbishop, then, is in favor of European intervention. 
He is an ally of Napoleon. He is leagued with absolutism against 
democracy and republicanism ! Let America understand this ; 
let the democracy of the United States understand it ! 

Let the Irish who belong to the various secret organizations 
in this country understand that they have been drawn into 
these organizations, which are wielded by invisible powers, for 
the purpose of establishing a hierarchical, absolutistical, im- 
perial despotism at Washington, and, consequently, for uproot- 
ing democracy and free institutions in our country ! Let the 
French, English, and German democrats understand that the 
Austro-despotisms have their agents here, and that, in fleeing 
from foreign oppression, the same enemies follow them to their 
place of refuge, carrying on the same war, clandestinely seek- 
ing to use them as instruments to overturn the free govern- 
ment that shelters them under its wing, and establish a des- 
potism ! The struggle will soon change from that of absolut- 
ism against slavery, to one of democracy against European 
intervention and absolutism ! It is for the destruction of 
democracy, then, that the present war is waged, and that 
intervention will be made — a war against democracy and prot- 
estantism in the United States, and a war against constitution- 
alism and protestantism in England ; for they both go together, 
and the destruction of the one will be the destruction of 
the other ! No one, therefore, can make war on protestantism, 
if he would preserve his own freedom ! Protestantism and 
civil liberty go together. 

Archbishop Hughes informs us, in his remarkable letter to 
the Hon. ¥m. H. Seward, that " it would not be proper for 
him to communicate what transpired in Europe during his 
visit there, only the important fact that they regard the people 
of the United States very much as they regard the inhabitants 
of the Sandwich Islands ; and that America must be pre- 
pared ! " 

This in a public letter, addressed to the Secretary of State 
of the United States, giving him a report of his visit to Europe 
— a visit, he says, undertaken in consequence of a request from 
some individual in communication with the Cabinet, — has the 
effrontery to declare that it would not be proper for him to 



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communicate what transpired there, any iuriner tnan that we 
were considered a sort of heathen, to be taken in hand and dis- 
ciplined by the European powers ! 

Already Lower Canada threatens to secede and call in Louis 
Napoleon ! Will not the reader perceive the coincidence be- 
tween this movement on our North and his appearance in 
Mexico, and the agitations in New York city in reference to 
the draft, and the spasmodic efforts of Lee to penetrate into 
Maryland ? 

The recent riot in New York city is the beginnings of the 
fruit of that spirit which the Boston Pilot and Freeman's 
Journal have labored for the last twenty years to awaken and 
strengthen in the Irish heart, with express reference to prepar- 
ing the way for these events, and is part of the general pro- 
gramme ; as proof of which we cite the speech of the editor of 
the Freeman's Journal, a few weeks previous to the outbreak, 
in which he recommends the people to arm in squads of ten and 
fifteen, and be prepared to resist the draft ! The object of this, 
however, is to obtain auxiliaries to the central organization of 
the Fenians from among other classes of the population besides 
the Irish ; and the object of the recent outbursts was merely to 
feel of this portion of the population, and see how far they would 
go toward resisting the government, and how far they could 
be controlled by their leaders, and also to let them'know where 
their friends were ! If it had shown itself sufficiently power- 
ful, and had promised to be successful, then the rank and file 
of the Fenians would have developed themselves, and there 
would have been a simultaneous explosion throughout the 
North and in Canada ! but at present they keep quiet. 

The time for action will come when Louis Napoleon has 
advanced a little further. We would inquire whether there 
was any connection between the visit of Prince Napoleon to 
our shores in 1861, and the appearance of Louis Napoleon in 
Mexico at the present time ? He visited the United States, 
Canada, and Ireland. Is he to have a throne in one of these 
countries ? 

Maximilian has just accepted the Mexican throne ; there- 
fore we sound the alarm ! 

* As we were going to press, it is announced that there is some doubt whether 
Maximilian will accept the proffered throne. No matter ; if he does not, some one 
else will, who will carry out the Napoleonic policy. 




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